AC/DC Music Video Composed Using MS Excel

1. Orjan Morjan
   October 25th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

   "You can even download the .exe file and run it on your own computer."
   You mean the .xls file?
   Wouldn't really be anything special in a .exe file that plays a movie.

2. CheeseDuck
   October 25th, 2008 at 8:34 pm

   That goes against everything I have ever known.

3. John
   October 25th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

   D'oh! Yes, .xls. Fixed now.

4. Johnny Cat
   October 25th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

   Holy wtf. Very Impressive!

   This would have been ultimately cooler if they had used some other artist, maybe Snow Patrol. Sorry, but as cool as the result is, it can't be that hard to find a more 21st century band to debut it.

5. ted
   October 25th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

   From appearances, it just looks like they embedded a movie in the file. But I don't know enough about it. And, yes, I also wonder about the choice of artist.

6. John Walkenbach
   October 25th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

   They embedded a WAV file, and used some VBA trickery to make an ASCII movie in range of merged cells.

   For the VBA inclined, a few hints here:

   http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php/blog/ac_dc_video_in_excel/

7. Christophe
   October 25th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

   Ah! MS Excel, my favorite program : it has always made me forgive Microsoft for the blue screens of death...
   Good post.

8. WillF
   October 25th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

   What I want to know is where I can get my hands on the ASCII art video codec!

9. MicrosoftHatesBlackPeople
   October 26th, 2008 at 1:25 am

   Neato...but no rama.
   The lovely people at Microsoft decided not to include VBA macro support for Excel (or Word) in the 2008 Mac version. So if you're a Mac user with an updated Office package, you'll have to get your AC/DC fix someplace else (such as by urinating on an electric outlet).

10. serdarb
    January 7th, 2009 at 8:39 am

    very nice post...

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